Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Science
X-ray laser helps fight sleeping sickness
An international group of scientists working at SLAC has mapped a weak spot in the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness, pinpointing a promising new target for treating a disease that kills tens of thousands of people each year.
US Department of Energy

Public Release: 19-Nov-2012
Physical Review Letters
BaBar experiment confirms time asymmetry
Digging through nearly 10 years of data from billions of BaBar particle collisions, researchers found that certain particle types change into one another much more often in one way than they do in the other, a violation of time reversal symmetry and confirmation that some subatomic processes have a preferred direction of time.
US Department of Energy

Public Release: 11-Nov-2012
Nature Photonics
Study provides recipe for 'supercharging' atoms with X-ray laser
Researchers using a free-electron X-ray laser have found a way to strip most of the electrons from xenon atoms, creating a "supercharged," strongly positive state at energies previously thought too low.
US Department of Energy/Office of Science

Public Release: 12-Aug-2012
Nature Photonics
World's most powerful X-ray laser beam refined to scalpel precision
With a thin sliver of diamond, scientists at the DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford have transformed the Linac Coherent Light Source into an even more precise tool for exploring the nanoworld. The improvements yield laser pulses focused to higher intensity in a much narrower band of X-ray wavelengths, and may enable experiments that have never before been possible.
US Department of Energy Office of Science

Public Release: 6-Aug-2012
Physical Review Letters
Extreme plasma theories put to the test
The first controlled studies of extremely hot, dense matter have overthrown the widely accepted 50-year-old model used to explain how ions influence each other's behavior in a dense plasma. The results should benefit a wide range of fields, from research aimed at tapping nuclear fusion as an energy source to understanding the inner workings of stars.
US Department of Energy